At the height of apartheid in South Africa, a small suburb in the city of Port Elizabeth became a thorn in the side of the government. While the country was systematically racially divided, Korsten persisted as a non-racial enclave. The story of this community and it's unique place in South African history is told through contemporary sources and the recollections of residents.

Umkhonto weSizwe, Spear of the Nation, was arguably the last of the great liberation armies of the twentieth century—but it never got to “march triumphant into Pretoria.” MK—as it was known—was the armed wing of the African National Congress, South Africa’s liberation movement, that challenged the South African apartheid government. A small group of revolutionaries committed to the seizure of power, MK discovered its principal members engaged in negotiated settlement with the enemy and was...

The first comprehensive social, economic and political history of the development of Nelson Mandela Bay in the twentieth century, this book traces the making of an urban black working class in the industrial and commercial sectors of the economy. It draws on archival and oral history sources to examine how this new proletariat organised against both capital and the apartheid state. Class, gender and racial divisions are examined along with the agency of working class people in resisting ap...

Analyses the fragmentation and future of labour movements in South Africa and globally in the context of globalisation, the fourth industrial revolution and the Covid-19 pandemic.